Let's Be Reasonable

ABC News has an article about
Reasonable Computers and The Next Steps in `Artificial
Intelligence'. It appears
that
DARPA has given CMU $7 million to develop cognitive computers as a
part of
the PAL project (Perceptive Assistant that Learns). CMU's part will be
to develop
a RADAR (Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning) system
that's kind
of like a personal assistant. The PAL project will be for academic,
military, and
business use. It seems that DARPA wants to see AI grow up so that we
all can have smarter more reasonable robots!